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(U) DIA Office Expands to Support Horizontal Integration
FROM: Sharon A. Houy
DIA Executive Representative to NSA
Run Date: 04/26/2004
FROM: Sharon A. Houy
DIA Executive Representative to NSA
(U) Beginning in October 2003, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has been rapidly
expanding its presence and analytic endeavors with SID to meet our Directors' goals for
horizontal integration. We have gone from a one man (so to speak) office to a three-person
operation. Many of you have met us: Sharon Houy, the new Executive Representative, and Chris
Yates, the first-ever Deputy Representative. Our administrative assistant will be on board soon.
Our new spaces
(S//SI) Since our arrival we have been working on new agreements between DIA and NSA on
information sharing, beginning with the new MOU regarding the sharing of terrorist information,
focused on Iraq. Under this novel agreement, JITF-CT ( Joint Intelligence Task Force Combating Terrorism ) analysts at DIA will gain access to NSA databases to enhance their
analysis of Iraqi terrorism issues. This pilot is pushing new information-sharing concepts that we
hope will prove to be models for community-wide collaboration in the future.
(S) A new umbrella MOA* between DIA and SID is being approved that will expedite the
detailing of personnel between DIA and NSA for future information-sharing activities. This will
allow us to follow through in a timely fashion on many new initiatives, including the DIRNSA's
offer to re-look Libyan WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) information and DIA's expansion of
its analytic presence in the GIS/CAD Multi-Agency Center .
(S/SI) Information sharing between DIA and NSA is nothing new. We've had programs in place
for many years with DEFSMAC (forty to be exact!), CIHS , the IOTC , the Counterterrorism
product line, the GIS/CAD Multi-Agency Center, Regional Targets, and SSIO . DIA's strength to
SIGINT production is its all-source subject-matter expertise and research methodologies applied
to the NSA data. We are even running DIA data in the KSP !
(U) If you haven't met us, have an idea for collaboration or simply a question, please don't
hesitate to call us at
or visit us in our new spaces in
Sharing a desk in the old spaces
(U) Notes:
* MOA = Memorandum of Agreement
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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